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Lite not finishing loading - Colin23erk - 10-16-2015
Hello
I have Lite and Win-7 dual booting which have been working OK for over a year
After a problem with Win-7 I reinstalled it after which I could not boot into Lite (black screen with Flashing cursor
I used Boot-Repair Disk to mend the boot menu
I can now boot to Win-7 OK .
When I try to boot to Lite the Lite-Splash screen comes up - the progress bar goes normally for a 3rd of the way but then goes very slowly to the end . The PC then hangs
Colin
Re: Lite not finishing loading - Colin23erk - 10-16-2015
after all the problems I have had I am getting paranoid about doing anything to make my situation worse . I would like someone to reassure me if I can upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 using a USB drive with the hope it will allow Lite to load normally.
Will it destroy the settings etc I have on 2.4.
Re: Lite not finishing loading - torreydale - 10-16-2015
What managed your dual boot? Was it a Microsoft boot manager or a Ubuntu/Linux boot manager?
Your settings for 2.4 will be maintained if you already have a separate /home partition. If your LL 2.4 installation and home directory is all part of the root (ie. /) partition, your settings will be overwritten.
Re: Lite not finishing loading - Wirezfree - 10-16-2015
If you have 2.4, then you use Lite Upgrade to go to 2.6 , no need for USB
Click Menu , start typing Lite U and select Lite Upgrade
Re: Lite not finishing loading - torreydale - 10-16-2015
That's true, Wirezfree, but since reinstalling Win7, his Lite 2.4 isn't booting.
Re: Lite not finishing loading - Wirezfree - 10-16-2015
A senior moment, I missed that.
I had a problem in my early days and I killed my install, would not boot.
I used Boot Repair Disk , it fixed it, I have kept the USB stick, just in case
Re: Lite not finishing loading - firenice03 - 10-16-2015
@ Wirezfree and torreydale and others
Just looking - and this will exceed my Linux expertise... But looks like Boot Repair Disk changes things that LL likes????
Maybe this will help you guys??
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/installing-linux-lite/no-boot-after-boot-repair-disk/
@Colin23erk
Don't give up yet
Re: Lite not finishing loading - N4RPS - 10-16-2015
Hello!
Whenever I need to use Boot Repair, I can't seem to get the stand-alone Boot Repair CD I create to work for me. I have had more luck with booting with an LL LiveCD, adding the PPA and boot-repair (even though the changes won't be saved to the CD), and then run boot-repair.
Details here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
Good luck, Colin...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
Re: Lite not finishing loading - Wirezfree - 10-16-2015
@firenice03,
Thanks...
I was on 1.8.or 1.6.?? and only LL on the disk,
I don't remember any issues, it just worked. maybe multiboot is the issue.?
I don't multi-boot,
Just VM's running a clone of my original XP Pro Live & Win XP Pro Backup
and 10 other VM's: MS-DOS6.22(that was a pain getting networking going)
Win 3.11 , Win95C , Win NT4 , Win98-SE , Win2K Pro , Win7 Pro , Win 8.1 Pro
for nostalgia
, but I couldn't get Win2.1 running 
Not forgetting Linux Lite 2.6 & LInux Lite 2.6 Backup
Re: Lite not finishing loading - Colin23erk - 10-16-2015
Looking at the Install events when it hangs the last entry is
starting bridge socket events into upstart hangs
Tried looking on the Web but its beyond my knowledge but it is known about by some "experts" as is Linux boot hanging
With regard to the problem of having my Home in a Separate Partition -- No I dont
When I was exploring whilst in the " Boot rescue mode" I can see my Home File - can I copy it into my Data partition and then Replace it after I have installed 2.6